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[DUNDAS, Henry, first] Viscount MELVILLE [1742-1811].
Speech Delivered By Lord Viscount Melville, In The House Of Peers, On Friday the 24th May, 1805, In Answer To Lord Darnley's Motion Respecting The State Of The Navy.
London: Printed For John Stockdale, 1805..
8vo. pp. 111, [1]ads. disbound (foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. Goldsmiths' 19047. Kress B4942.
$87 USD Book Number: NUNee[DU18 Order / Enquire

GAVIN, C.M.
Royal Yachts.
London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1932..
4to. pp. 338. title in red & black with vignette. 16 tipped-in colour plates & numerous halftones. original gilt-stamped hard-grained morocco, t.e.g., others uncut (extremities rubbed). First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 9.
$1249 USD Book Number: elala2056 Order / Enquire

GREENHILL, Basil & WILLIS, Lionel (Colour Illustrations).
The Coastal Trade Sailing Craft of British Waters 900-1900.
[London]: Phaidon, [1975]..
oblong folio. pp. [120]. 98 illus. (45 full-page colour). cloth. dw. cloth slipcase. First Edition.
$179 USD Book Number: BWIe& WI99 Order / Enquire

HANWAY, Jonas [1712-1786].
Proposal for County Naval free-Schools, to be built on Waste Lands. giving such effectual Instructions to Poor Boyas, as may nurse them for The Sea Service.
[London: 1783]..
3 Parts, II & III with variant divisional titles, the first 2 with continuous pagination. folio. pp. 1 p.l. (engraved title), iv, [2]engraved title to second part, v, [1]blank, [2] (the preceding 5 leaves being prelims to the third part), [ix]-xxii, [1 leaf], 2, 90, [4], 91-120, 120*-[121*], 121-141, 48(engraved music), 67. [complete]. 2 engraved titles, the first with medallion vignette, 48 pp. of engraved music, 8 engraved plates (2 double-page, 3 folding, 3 double-page & folding), & 1 double-page folding engraved chart. engraved dedication headpiece. modern half calf over contemporary modern bds. (rubbed, some foxing to endpapers & last leaves). with printed & manuscript presentation label on upper cover & inserted 1-page printed & manuscript letter, dated July 3, 1783 and signed by Mr. Newby, presenting this copy to Viscount MountStuart in order to enlist his support for government funding (letter tattered along right side affecting last letter on each line). First Edition. Hanway was one of the most notable of the eighteenth century English philanthropists; his zealous efforts on behalf of social reform were many and varied: he was a chief promoter of the Marine Society, the Magdalen Hospital, plans for benefiting chimney-sweeps, reforming the Foundling Hospital, establishing Sundays schools and petitioning for the relief of destitute Canadians at Montreal after the great fire of 1765, and during the American Revolutionary War, and he helped to establish the Society for the Encouragement of British troops, an organization which provided clothing and prayer books for the soldiers. The most ambitious and successful of Hanway's philanthropic schemes was the Marine Society, founded in 1756, for the purpose of maintaining a stable supply of seamen for the navy through the recruitment of impoverished boys and young men. During the course of the Seven Years' War, some 10,000 sailors were fitted out by the Society, and Hanway, in reward for his services, was made Commissioner of the Victualling Office in 1762. The present work sets forth Hanway's elaborate proposal for the establishment under the auspices of the Marine Society of County Naval Free Schools, in which poor boys would be given proper moral and religious instruction and taught the rudiments of seamanship and agriculture. One hundred and fifty acres of wasteland in each shire would be expropriated for the purpose. Hanway's book not only lays out the rules and goals of the schools, but details curriculum, provides architectural plans, and suggests appropriate songs, prayers, and hymns for the young lads. The generation of Englishmen so trained would then not only be capable of defending their homeland, but would also be upstanding, industrious, and productive members of society: "As islanders, we should aspire to the highest relish of the sea, whatever our occupations on shore may be! The scholars in question, being taught how to gain by labour on both elements, may be able to raise their aged parents' heads, by plowing the waves, as well as the fields, and guard the watery frontiers of those very grounds which they may have rendered fruitful by their own hands."Goldsmiths' 12516. Kress B.596. See Merrill Distad, Jonas Hanway and the Marine Society in History Today, XXIII: 6 (June 1973).
$3996 USD Book Number: elala653 Order / Enquire

[HARDING, Edward] [1755-1840].
Naval Biography; Or, The History And Lives Of Distinguished Characters In The British Navy, From The Earliest Period Of History To The Present Time.
London: Printed for John Scott, 1805..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 478; 529, [6]. 41 portraits, most engraved by Edward Harding, and noted as published by him in 1799-1800. contemporary half calf (extremities worn, joints cracked, front joint of Vol. I almost detached, scattered foxing & browning). First Edition. Including American content, with biographical sketches of Sebastian Cabot, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Martin Frobisher, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Dampier, George Anson, Sir Peter Warren, and Sir Charles Hardy. Printmaker and publisher Edward Harding was appointed librarian to Queen Charlotte in 1803, and also operated her private press at Frogmore until her death in 1817. He later worked for the Prince Regent/George IV, and as librarian to the Duke of Cumberland. Only 2 copies recorded in Worldcat. Halkett & Laing IV 159. National Maritime Museum II 72. cfSabin 52074 (citing publication date of '1815', probably in error and calling for only 38 portraits).
$400 USD Book Number: elala5957 Order / Enquire

HURD, Archibald.
A Merchant Fleet At War.
London...: Cassell And Company, Ltd., 1920..
8vo. pp. xxiii, 139, [1]. 63 plates (13 colour). maps on endpapers. cloth (extremities bit frayed, light foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. Record of the services performed by the Cunard Steamship Company during World War I.
$100 USD Book Number: dola205 Order / Enquire

INCHES, H.C.
The Great Lakes Wooden Shipbuilding Era.
[np: The Author, 1962]..
oblong folio. unpaginated profusely illus. wrs. spiral-bound. Very good copy. Signed by the Author on dedication page. First Edition.
$100 USD Book Number: dola702 Order / Enquire

JENKINS, H.D.
The Lights And Tides Of The World, Including A Description Of All The Fog-Signals...
London: Imray, Laurier, Norie & Wilson, Ltd., 1918..
4to. pp. xiii(ads), [2], xvi, ii, 780, 46, xiv-xxviii(ads). folding map. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (cloth soiled, rear hinge cracked). Nineteenth Edition.
$200 USD Book Number: elala4468 Order / Enquire

KELLAND, Otto.
Beautiful Ladies of the Atlantic.
St. John's, NF: The Author, Printed by Dicks and Company Limited, 1986..
oblong 4to. pp. 2 p.l., iii, 75. profusely illus. wrs. (front wr. with small stain & small piece of cellotape, manuscript note inside front wr.). First Edition.
$60 USD Book Number: dola664 Order / Enquire

[KNOWLES, Sir Charles] [d. 1777].
The Conduct Of Admiral Knowles On The Late Expedition Set in a True Light.
London: Printed for J.Clarke, A.Millar, and R. and J.Dodsley, 1758..
8vo. pp. 30. 1 folding map engraved by Thomas Jefferys & 2 engraved plates (1 folding with views of 3 forts & prospect of land at the mouth of the River Charante). woodcut title vignette. disbound. Second Edition. Admiral Knowles' was second in command to Sir Edward Hawkes during the abortive expedition against Rochefort in 1757. Knowles' conduct and the conduct of the military commander, Lieutenant-General Sir John Mordaunt, provoked considerable criticism. cfGoldsmiths' 9428.
$308 USD Book Number: NNOe[KNO9 Order / Enquire

LATIMER, David W.
Passenger Ships of the 20th Century An illustrated Encyclopedia.
[Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2002]..
4to. pp. 400. illus. bds. dw. First Edition.
$100 USD Book Number: dola281 Order / Enquire

LAYSON, J.F.
Memorable Shipwrecks And Seafaring Adventures Of The Nineteenth Century.
London & Newcastle-On-Tyne: The Tyne Publishing Company, Limited, [c1880]..
8vo. pp. viii, [9]-304 + [16]ads. with half-title. 4 tinted wood-engraved plates (incl. frontis.). decorative headpieces. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (rubbed, inner front hinge cracked, some gatherings sprung, some scattered light soiling). Inscription dated 1882 on front flyleaf from the Rock of Shelter Juvenile Lodge presenting the book to Bro. Wm. Lambie, for bringing new members). Including chapters on the Lady Hobart, the Duke of Cumberland, the Nautilus, the Medusa, the Alceste, the Kent, the Comet, the Neva, &c.
$75 USD Book Number: elala4888 Order / Enquire

LEDIARD, Thomas [1685-1743].
The Naval History Of England, In all its Branches; From The Norman Conquest In the Year 1066. to the Conclusion of 1734.
London: Printed for John Wilcox and Olive Payne, 1735..
2 Volumes. folio. pp. iv, [23], [1]errata, xii, 394; 1 p.l., 395-933, [1]ads. text in double columns. engraved frontis. portrait. engraved dedication headpiece & initial. woodcut initials. contemporary calf, sometime rebacked (binding worn, one cover detached, other joints cracked, light dampstain to upper inner portion of leaves in first gatherings of Vol. I, occasional stains). First Edition. The present work and Burchett's A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea (1720 were the earliest British naval histories and have remained the main authorities for the period. Included are accounts of naval battles, voyages of discovery to Africa, Asia and America (John and Sebastian Cabot, Frobisher to the arctic, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert to Newfoundland, &c.), and the British colonies in America (Virginia, Nevis, Maryland, &c.). European Americana 735/145. National Maritime Museum Cat. V 2266. Sabin 39683.
$1499 USD Book Number: elala3419 Order / Enquire

MAGINNIS, Arthur J.
The Atlantic Ferry Its Ships, Men, And Working.
London: Whittaker And Co. & Bell & Sons, 1892..
8vo. pp. xviii, 304. with half-title & tipped-in errata slip. 14 plates (incl. frontis.; 13 folding) & 1 folding diagram. numerous text illus. (many full-page). A very nice untrimmed copy in original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. First Edition. Including chapters on early Atlantic steamers, the Cunard and Collins Lines, the Inman, Anchor, and Allan Lines, the Galway, National, and Guion Lines, White Star Line, Dominion, American, State, Warren, Wilson, and Beaver Lines, Leyland, Johnston, and London Lines, Continental Lines, &c.
$250 USD Book Number: elala4952 Order / Enquire

MASTERS, David.
Crimes Of The High Seas.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1936..
8vo. pp. 280. 8 plates. cloth (spine darkened & frayed at ends). First American Edition.
$45 USD Book Number: dola494 Order / Enquire

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